BYLAWS
OF THE
SLC
(Student Life Committee)
2013-2014
A COMMITTEE
OF THE ASPSU SENATE
Article I Designation
The name of this committee, in full, is The Student Life
Committee to the ASPSU Senate. It may also be referred to as the Student Life
Student Senate Committee, variants thereof, and simply as the “SLC”.
Article II Object
The object of this committee shall be to assist the Student
Life Director of ASPSU to engage Portland State University students with their
student government through events, fieldwork, university relations,
publications, and leadership; to foster constructive relationships and liaise
with student organizations; and to provide assistance representing
non-traditional students.
Article III Members
Section 1. If the membership of the
committee falls lower than three, the committee is automatically dissolved, to
be reinstated when membership is adequate.
Section 2. Members of the committee
are to be qualified into four groups: the committee chair, voting members, ex
officio members, and consulting members. These categories of membership
determine eligibility, speaking rights, and responsibilities.
Section 3. The chair is responsible
for maintaining the legitimacy of the committee, storing important documents,
calling meetings, and setting the agenda.
Section 4. In the absence of a chair,
provided that the committee meets the minimum number of members, a temporary
chair is to be elected among voting members and business is to proceed in as
regular a manner as possible.
Section 5. The voting members of
the committee are the sitting student body senators. They are full members in
every regard.
Section 6. Any ex officio members that
choose to attend meetings will retain speaking privileges. The Student Life
Director intern is to be considered an ex officio member. Ex officio members
must be members of ASPSU excepting members of ASPSU in the past.
Section 7. Consulting members are
members of the community whose voluntary involvement with the committee varies
in function and form. Their speaking rights must be agreed upon by the
committee before the consulting member’s agendum.
Section 8. Members must notify the
committee two weeks in advance of their intent to resign. Failure to do so is
an immediate suspension of voting rights and an attention request to the
Judicial Review Board.
Section 9. All members may not miss
more than two committee meetings per academic quarter, including meetings when
classes are not in session. Unexcused absences are to be determined by the
chair. Upon the third unexcused absence, it is to the committee’s discretion on
which course to take—an attention request or some punishment which satisfies
the responsible members of the committee. The fourth unexcused absence is an
immediate attention request to be submitted by the chair.
Article IV Officers
Section 1.
These officers shall perform the duties prescribed by these bylaws and by the
rules of order of the parliamentary authority outlined in article VII.
Section 2. The ASPSU Student Life
Director shall be the chair of the committee.
Section 3. The
committee shall elect from among its ranks a secretary to be charged with
taking minutes. The secretary may resign with 2 weeks notice upon which
occasion the committee must elect a new secretary. The committee may depose a
current secretary by electing a new one.
Article V Meetings
Section 1. Meetings
shall be held once a week at a time designated by the chair.
Section 2.
Special meetings may called by the chair or a majority of committee members at
any time provided that the committee is given 48 hours notice.
Section3.
Meetings with members totaling less than 7 shall be held informally. The agenda
and voting and any proceedings thereof are to strictly adhere to the rules of
order of the parliamentary authority declared in article VII regardless of the
number of members in attendance. If the committee exceeds 7 members, then the
rules of order are to be adopted in full.
Section 4. Quorum
is three voting members.
Article VI Voting
Section 1.
Motions receiving less than a simple majority vote (defined as any number
greater than half of the total number of voting members present) shall fail.
Those receiving, at minimum, a majority vote shall be adopted by the committee
excepting certain circumstances outlined in the parliamentary authority in
article VII.
Section 2.
There shall be no abstaining votes unless a committee member can obtain the
right to abstain with the approval of a simple majority of the committee.
Section 3.
The chair is a voting member.
Section 4.
Voting members are voting members.
Section 5. Ex
officio and consulting members are not permitted to vote.
Article VII Parliamentary Authority
The rules
contained in the current edition of Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised shall
govern the committee in all cases to which they are applicable and in which
they are not inconsistent with these bylaws or any special rules of order this
society may adopt.
Article VIII Amendment of Bylaws
Section 1.
Any voting member struck by the desire to amend these bylaws must give advance
notice to the committee during the previous meeting, specifying their
amendment(s) in the notice.
Section 2.
Members not present at a meeting when notice with the intent of amending the
bylaws is given, are to be informed by the chair and the member proposing the
amendment(s) is to supply the alterations to the absent members no less than 3
days in advance of the next committee meeting. Failure to provide the proposed
alterations to the absent members 3 days in advance constitutes a failed notice
and the bylaws may not be amended at the next committee meeting, however,
notice may be given again.
Section 3.
Upon the successful amendment of the bylaws, the revised document, along with
tracked changes, is to be brought before the student senate for final approval.
The bylaws are not binding until approved.
Article IX Conformity
All meetings and activities of the
committee are to adhere to the standards set by the adopted parliamentary
authority, any established special rules of order, these bylaws, the senate
bylaws, the ASPSU constitution, Portland State University policy, Oregon
University System policy, and local, state, and national law.
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